What is Cookie Dough?

Cookie dough is an un-cooked blend of cookie ingredients. While cookie dough is normally intended to be baked into individual cookies before eating, it is also consumed raw. Cookie dough can be made at home or bought pre-made in packs. Dessert products containing cookie dough include ice cream and candy.

How can you eat cookie dough raw?

Baking your flour before adding it into the cookie dough takes away the risk factor of potential contamination. You can use this trick in any recipe for baked goods if you want the raw batter to be safe to eat

What is the difference between cookie dough and cookies?

One is baked, the other is raw. Sometimes if it’s sold as cookie dough for immediate consumption it will not include raw egg.

How do you bake cookie dough?

HEAT oven to 350°F (or 325°F for nonstick cookie sheet). PLACE cookie dough rounds about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. BAKE 10 to 14 minutes or until light golden brow

Is cookie a bread or pastry?

Cookies are baked treats. A cookie is a small sweet, crispy or cake-like pastry most often made with flour, sugar, liquid and fat.

Is eating raw cookie dough a myth?
Flour doesn’t look like a raw food, but most flour is raw. That means it hasn’t been treated to kill germs that cause food poisoning, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli). These harmful germs can contaminate grain while it’s still in the field or flour while it’s being made.

Where to buy cookie dough in Namibia?

It is available at Multi-Save Supermarket and Shoprite Namibia.